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Saturday, February 18, 2017

Sam
Worthington, known for his global hit epic adventure movies such as
“Avatar” and “Clash of The Titans” leads the audience in his
latest exciting inspirational journey in “The Shack”. The
movie is based on the phenomenally successful novel “The Shack”
by author William P. Young and is a profoundly inspirational story
about the resiliency of the human spirit amongst unimaginable loss,
as a grieving father faces the hardest decision of his life — to
forgive the unforgivable.

From
all appearances, Mackenzie Phillips (Sam Worthington) seems to have a
good life; three great kids, a beautiful wife, lovely home —
nothing seems amiss. But, when Mack takes the kids for an
overnight camping trip, what starts out as a fun getaway soon turns
into a parent’s most horrifying nightmare — his youngest
daughter, Missy, is abducted from their campsite and her body is
never recovered.

As
Mack struggles to make sense of such enormous tragedy, he descends
into a “great sadness” where his life starts to unravel and all
the ghosts that he thought he had buried long ago, resurface and push
him to the edge of a precipice. It is at this time, at his darkest
hour, that Mack receives a mysterious note in his mailbox with an
invitation from God to meet at the shack—the place where Missy’s
bloody dress was found. In a desperate attempt to find closure and
answers to his daughter’s murder, Mack heads back into the Oregon
wilderness to confront the killer or God…or both.

The
step to making this a bonafide Hollywood film was finding the perfect
cast who understood and appreciated the material, but was willing to
open themselves up to explore the profound and moving messages. That
took form in an outstanding cast that includes Sam Worthington,
Academy Award® winner Octavia Spencer (Best Supporting Actress, The
Help, 2011), Radha Mitchell, Alice Braga, and Grammy-Award® winner
Tim McGraw along with newcomers to the big screen Sumire and Avraham
Aviv Alush.

It
is this examination into some of life’s biggest and most enigmatic
questions that immediately attracted Sam Worthington to play the role
of Mack. “I had a visceral reaction to the script and that
compelled me to read the book,” says Worthington. “I emotionally
connected with this story, especially as I have a young family and I
identified with what would happen if my family, my child was taken
away from me. I wanted to use Mack to explore these themes of life
and death and who’s to blame for breaking your heart? Who’s to
blame for taking away your faith? These are really big questions that
I think everyone asks at some time in your life.”

“The
most exciting thing I’ve heard from people that have dug into this
as a film is that ‘it made me want to be a better person.’ This
story gives people hope and I love that!” shares producer Brad
Cummings. Tim McGraw notes, “We forget what we’re here for
and what our purpose is, it’s to love one another, be supportive of
one another and find ways to lift each other up.”

Sam
Worthington concludes, “We all lose a relationship or a loved one.
If you look at it in a very simple way, the film offers a beautiful
message that if you forgive the tragedy that hits your life, you can
actually get through it. It may be extremely painful and take a long
time, but forgiveness releases you, it sets you free.”